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Tuesday, Sept 30

9/29/2025

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Learning Intentions

I can make complex and insightful inferences

AGENDA

Review Chapter 3 Assessment
- Revisions/Redo Procedure
1. DO THE PRACTICE. YOU CANNOT REDO OR REVISE AN ASSESSMENT IF YOU HAVE ANY PRACTICE MISSING.
2. Complete the Grade Improvement form.
Begin Chapter 4 if time allows.

Monday, Sept 29

9/29/2025

AGENDA

I forgot that I was going to be gone this afternoon, so you're taking a grammar test. Booo. Booooooooo!
Yes, this will be graded. No it won't tank your overall grade right now. You may not even finish the test. Don't stress. Just give it a shot and do your best. I know being quiet and working through 75 grammar questions for 45 minutes isn't the best time for a Monday. Just do it.
Tomorrow we will go over the Chapter 3 assessment (answers, revisons, retakes, ect.) and start chapter 4.

Friday, Sept 26

9/26/2025

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Routine Writing - Week 4 (in Google Classroom)
- Grading: ~14 weeks. To get an A = 12+, B = 10+, C = 8+, D= 6+, F = <5
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Agenda

MOVIE DAY! / finish reading or chapter 3 assessment

Thursday, Sept 25

9/25/2025

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Learning Intentions

I can make complex and insightful inferences
I can interpret advanced vocabulary words and analyze their meaning in a passage of text

AGENDA

Finish Chapter 3 Assessment
Go over Gatsby Literary Analysis Essay
Read Chapter 4

Wednesday, Sept 24

9/24/2025

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Learning Intentions

I can make complex and insightful inferences
I can interpret advanced vocabulary words and analyze their meaning in a passage of text

AGENDA

Discuss Chapter 3 - YOUR QUESTIONS!
Complete Chapter 3 Assessment (for skills 1.1 Inference, 1.2 Evidence, and 1.4 Vocabulary)
Read Great Gatsby Literary Analasis Essay (in Google Classroom)

Tuesday, Sept 23

9/23/2025

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ASSESSMENT PRACTICE

Learning Intentions

I can make complex and insightful inferences
I can interpret advanced vocabulary words and analyze their meaning in a passage of text

AGENDA

Finish chapter 3 (on your own... boooo!) page 48-59 hardcover (timestamp 1:18:50 in the audiobook)
- As you read, be sure to take notes on at least two details passages (phrase, sentence(s)) that you find interesting or important. (with page numbers)
- Reflect upon the passages by doing any (not all) of the following
- 1. Describe what the passage makes you think or feel
  2. Analyze details about the characters or relationships between characters
  3. Interpret what the passage means
  4. Examine how this passage sets up to setting, mood, or overall tone of the story.

Monday, Sept 22

9/22/2025

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Learning Intentions

I can identify key details, events, or descriptions of characters and plot.
I can interpret advanced vocabulary words and analyze their meaning in a passage of text

Agenda

Finish and discuss chapter 2 practice
- As you read, be sure to take notes on at least two details passages (phrase, sentence(s)) that you find interesting or important. (with page numbers)
- Reflect upon the passages by doing any (not all) of the following
- 1. Describe what the passage makes you think or feel
  2. Analyze details about the characters or relationships between characters
  3. Interpret what the passage means
  4. Examine how this passage sets up to setting, mood, or overall tone of the story.
- Summarize the chapter in a few short sentences when you're done.
Review Chapter 2 Practice (in Google Classroom)
Begin Reading Chapter 3 (audiobook)

Friday, Sept 19

9/19/2025

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Routine Writing - Week 3 (in Google Classroom)
- Grading: ~14 weeks. To get an A = 12+, B = 10+, C = 8+, D= 6+, F = <5
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Learning Intention

Vocabulary and details

Agenda

Finish reading and discuss chapter 2
- Take 5 minutes and record at least two observations from chapter 2 (if you haven't all ready)
- Summarize the chapter in 2-3 sentences.
- Write ONE question to bring up to the class. Make it an inferential question. (Inferential = what do you think it means, why did a character do something, why is something the way it is) For example, what the hell Tom? Why'd you go and do that?
Complete Chapter 2 practice (in Google Classroom)

Thursday, Sept 18

9/17/2025

PICTURE DAY!

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Learning Intentions

I can identify key details, events, or descriptions of characters and plot.
I can interpret advanced vocabulary words and analyze their meaning in a passage of text

Agenda

Finish Reading Chapter 2 in Great Gatsby (chapter 2 audiobook)
- Look for interesting vocabulary words (pick 2)
- As you read, be sure to take notes on at least two details passages (phrase, sentence(s)) that you find interesting or important. (with page numbers)
- Reflect upon the passages by doing any (not all) of the following
  1. Describe what the passage makes you think or feel
  2. Analyze details about the characters or relationships between characters
  3. Interpret what the passage means
  4. Examine how this passage sets up to setting, mood, or overall tone of the story.
- Summarize the chapter in a few short sentences when you're done.
IF you finish, you can work on Chapter 2 Practice in Google Classroom

Wednesday, Sept 17

9/16/2025

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Retreival Practice Ch 1

Learning Intentions

I can identify key details, events, or descriptions of characters and plot.
I can interpret advanced vocabulary words and analyze their meaning in a passage of text

Agenda

Review Chapter 1 Practice
Begin Chapter 2 in Great Gatsby (to page 30 in hardcover, 17 in soft)

Tuesday, Sept 16

9/15/2025

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Chapter 1 Comprehension
- What does the statement "When I came back from the East last Autumn..." tell you about the novel"
- What is the setting of the novel?
- What's the relationship between Nick, Tom, and Daisy?
- What is the reader left to think about Daisy's emotional state and her relationship with Tom? Why?
- As Nick drives away from the Buchannan household in East Egg , he experiences conflicting emotions. Why does he feel touched? Why does he feel confused and conflicted?
- Is. Gatsby. Batman?

Learning Intentions

I can identify key details, events, or descriptions of characters and plot.
I can interpret advanced vocabulary words and analyze their meaning in a passage of text

Agenda

Review Chapter 1 in Gatsby. Do the following:
- Summarize the chapter in a few short sentences.
- in your notes, write down at least two details passages (phrase, sentence(s)) that you find interesting or important. (with page numbers)
- Reflect upon the passages by doing any of the following
  1. Describe what the passage makes you think or feel
  2. Analyze details about the characters or relationships between characters
  3. Interpret what the passage means
  4. Examine how this passage sets up to setting, mood, or overall tone of the story.
Complete Chapter 1 Practice

Monday, Sept 15

9/15/2025

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Jot down what you can remember from chapter 1 in Gatsby

Learning Intentions

I can identify key details, events, or descriptions of characters and plot.

Agenda

Read Chapter 1
How to take Notes for Gatsby (template)

Friday, Sept 12

9/12/2025

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Routine Writing - Week 2 (in Google Classroom)
- Grading: ~14 weeks. To get an A = 12+, B = 10+, C = 8+, D= 6+, F = <5

Learning Intention

Expectations and inferences for Gatsby

Agenda

Discuss mastery trackers, proficiency scales, review 1.1 Practice #1
- Student Example: The entire story is filled with blank spots and torn out pieces that the readers are left to fill in. For example, at the very end, when the father is done with the story, there are a few lines that are left unclear, " But he stays by the window, remembering. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold, and where he’d go in it—was outside, for a while anyway " (Carver 2). My question is, is he talking about his daughter, or his ex wife, if that's what she is. I can see it going either way. We discussed that the mother and father had divorced, but I find it more likely that she died. The mood does not seem happy, or sad for that matter. However, it seems reminiscent, perhaps a little melancholy. Maybe no names are told because the father cannot stand to say the name of his now deceased wife, which he loved very much, and if not one person's, then it makes more sense not to say anyone's. This perfectly demonstrates the use of leaving out details so that the audience can decide what happened.
Read the introduction to The Great Gatsby (through ~page 4)
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Thursday, Sept 11

9/10/2025

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Retreival Practice
Activate your prior knowledge. What do you know about the 1920s?

Learning Intention

1920's historical context

Agenda

1920's Background (in Google Classroom)

Wednesday, Sept 10

9/10/2025

No English class today. Boooooooo,
Meet with Assistant Principals.

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